Measurement and verification of positron emitter nuclei generated at each treatment site by target nuclear fragment reactions in proton therapy

Medical Physics

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 4445-4455

  Miyatake, Aya ^a   Nishio, Teiji ^b,c   Ogino, Takashi ^b   Saijo, Nagahiro ^b   Esumi, Hiroyasu ^b   Uesaka, Mitsuru ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL EAST   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

beam on line PET system; in vivo dosimetry; monitoring of proton irradiation; target nuclear fragment reaction

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; GAMMA RAYS; NUCLEAR REACTIONS; POSITRONS; PROTON BEAMS; PROTON IRRADIATION;

ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; IN-VIVO; MEASUREMENT AND VERIFICATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; NATIONAL CANCER CENTERS; NUCLEAR FRAGMENTS; PET SYSTEMS; POSITRON EMITTERS;

PROTON BEAM THERAPY;

PROTON;

ARTICLE; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY;

HUMANS; PROTONS; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY;

EID: 78149475846     PISSN: 00942405     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1118/1.3462559     Document Type: Article

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